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The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao) has claimed responsibility for the weekend's violence.
BBC: Mali 'hesitant' over UN peacekeeping force
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Rebels of the al-Qaeda-linked Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao), said that France would pay for its intervention.
BBC: Mali Islamists seize town amid French intervention
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The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao) said it had carried out Sunday's attack on Malian troops as well as both the suicide bombings, AFP news agency reports.
BBC: Heavy gunfire in northern Mali town of Gao
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It became clear that Ansar Dine forces were partnered by katibas (fighting units) from the other militant factions, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) and the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao).
BBC: France: How was it dragged into the Malian conflict?
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For months, Gao has been in the hands of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao), which along with Ansar Dine has sought to enforce an extreme interpretation of Islamic law in northern Mali.
BBC: Mali: France pledges 'short' campaign against Islamists
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One militia in particular, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, "quickly became a front for drug smugglers from Gao, " Wolfram Lacher, a German expert on West Africa, wrote in a 2012 report for the Carnegie Endowment.
WSJ: Upheaval in Mali Curbs Drug Traffic